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Chlorine

Water Quality - Chlorine In Water

How harmful is it to consume chlorine and chlorine disinfection byproducts in our water? Proponents of chlorine claim there is no danger. But not all the information has been disclosed to the general public.

Chlorine is used to disinfect municipal water supplies and swimming pools from harmful bacteria. But chlorine is also a highly toxic element, which has an ability to oxidize all proteins, effectively rendering them useless. All living organisms are made up of proteins. Hence, any living organism that comes in contact with even trace amounts of chlorine is affected and, if exposed to sufficient quantities of chlorine, killed.

The major health issue regarding chlorine in municipal water is that it exposes us to a variety of toxic chemicals called trihalomethanes (THM's), which are byproducts of chlorine in water. Studies have linked THM's to miscarriage and fetal malformations, and they may be also associated with an increased risk of stillbirths. One of the most common of the THM's, chloroform, is classed as a potential cancer-causing agent. In public pools it has been measured at more than twenty times the level found in tap water.

Chlorine contributes to the development of atherosclerosis and the resulting heart attacks and strokes. According to the U.S. Council of Environmental Quality, cancer risks among people drinking chlorinated water is 93% higher than among those whose water does not contain it.

The MineralPRO™ Drinking Water Systems eliminate the health risks of drinking chlorinated water.

Chlorine Absorption During Showering

Unfortunately, a long hot shower can be dangerous because the toxic chemicals are inhaled in high concentrations. You can absorb 6 to 100 times more chlorine by breathing the vapors in the air around showers and bath than you would by drinking the water.

A high quality shower filter is essential for removing the unhealthy chlorine. And a nice bonus... you'll also notice that your skin looks healthier and your hair is more luxurious when using a shower filter.

Children are more susceptible to the harmful effects so, if you or your children take baths, purchase a dechlorinating bathtub filter. The bath ball removes 90% or more of the chlorine and chloramines.

The amount of chloroform, the most common trihalomethane (THM) in chlorinated water, inhaled or absorbed through the skin during a typical shower may be six times higher than that absorbed from chlorinated drinking water.

THM's, by-products from water chlorine, appear to increase significantly in the bloodstream after showering, says a study by researchers at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Public Health.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH - Dr.Halina Brown
Showering is suspected as the primary cause of elevated levels of chloroform in nearly every home.

NEW SCIENTIST, 1986 - Ian Anderson
Studies indicate the suspect chemicals can also be inhaled and absorbed through the skin during showering and bathing.

House holders can receive 6 to 100 times more of the chemical by breathing the air around showers and bath than they would by drinking the water.

NADER REPORT - Troubled Waters On Tap
The National Academy of Science estimates that 200 to 1000 people die in the United States each year from cancers caused by ingesting the contaminants in the water. The major health threat posed by these pollutants is far more likely to be from their inhalation as air pollutants. The reason that emissions are high is because water droplets dispersed by the shower head have a larger surface-to-value ratio than water streaming into the bath.

Office of Research and Development - US EPA - Lance Wallace, PhD
Chloroform levels increase 100 times during a 10 minute shower in tap water.

University of Pittsburgh - Julian B. Andelman, Professor of Water Chemistry
The steamy air of a shower contains significant amounts of at least two cancer-causing chemicals that evaporate out of water.

The MineralPRO™ Shower Head Filtersand Bath Tub Filters eliminate the health risks of bathing and showering in chlorinated water.

Chlorine Causes Cancer

Epidemiological studies funded by Health Canada concluded that 14 to 16 percent of bladder cancers in Ontario may be attributable to drinking water containing relatively high levels of chlorination byproducts. According to the results of a 1992 Norwegian study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, the consumption of chlorinated drinking water has been associated with a 20- to 40-percent increase in the incidence of colon and rectal cancer. A study done by the Medical College of Wisconsin and Harvard University found that the consumption of chlorinated drinking water accounts for nearly 15 percent of all rectal cancers and nine percent of all bladder cancers in North America. The study also concluded that drinking chlorinated water over long periods of time increases the chances of contracting rectal cancer by 38 percent and contracting bladder cancer by 21 percent. In addition, among those who drank chlorinated water, the researchers found a higher incidence of cancer of the esophagus, rectum, breast, and larynx, as well as Hodgkin’s disease.

Health Freedom News, 1987
The drinking of chlorinated water has finally been officially linked to an increased incidence of colon cancer. An epidemiologist at Oak Ridge Associated Universities completed a study of colon cancer victims and non-cancer patients and concluded that the drinking of chlorinated water for 15 years or more was conducive to a high rate of colon cancer.

St. Paul Dispatch & Pioneer Press, 1987
Long-term drinking of chlorinated water appears to increase a person's risk of developing bladder cancer as much as 80%, according to a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Some 45,000 Americans are diagnosed every year with bladder cancer.

BOTTOM LINE, 1987 - Dr. John Andelman, PhD
"On one hand, chlorination has freed civilization from the constant dangers of waterborne epidemics. On the other hand, in the mid 70's, scientists discovered that chlorination could create carcinogens in water."

"There was a higher incidence of cancer of the esophagus, rectum, breast, and larynx and of Hodgkin's Disease among those drinking chlorinated water."

Chlorine Water Filters

MineralPRO offers various styles of chlorine water filters that will effectively remove chlorine from drinking water, the whole house, and showering.

The MineralPRO™ Reverse Osmosis Drinking Water Filter System and Ultra Filtration Drinking Water Filter Systems have been tested by NSF as effective chlorine water filters to remove chlorine and other chemicals from drinking water.

Installing an industry leading chlorine water filter such as the MineralPRO™ Reverse Osmosis Drinking Water Filter will provide assurance that you will have safe, healthy drinking water no matter what contaminants are in your water including chemicals.

For more information regarding chlorine in water and chlorine water filters please contact MineralPRO™.

Testimonials

"I grew up on a farm in the interior of B.C, Canada. We had fresh water right from a natural spring water run off, and I always thought that was what all the water in the world tasted like. My mother called it “mountain juice”, and we drank it up eagerly, but not knowing how lucky we were to have the fresh, clean and uncontaminated water that we had.

It was not until I started traveling away from our little farm that I noticed the difference, and I started to educate myself about the quality of water around the world. I often wondered about the strong chlorine taste of the water in nearly every city I visited. I was astonished to learn that drinking unfiltered tap water can be hazardous and unhealthy because of chemicals, microbiological bacteria and viruses, pharmaceutical drugs, toxic metals and other contaminants.

Chlorine is one of the obvious added contaminants in most tap water. Most people are not aware that chlorine in water combines with natural organic matter creating cancer-causing Trihalomethanes (THM's). It is associated with triggering tumor development both in heart disease and cancer. Research has shown the basic cause of heart disease, heart attacks and most common forms of strokes is from the chlorine contained in drinking water.

CBC Research found that 24 of the 28 water samples taken from major metropolitan area water supplies contained evidence of drug contamination. “Birth control pills, cancer drugs and a host of other pharmaceuticals are making their way into the water supply because the human body doesn't always absorb all the medication it ingests, and some are flushed down the drain” says Gord Miller, Ontario's environmental commissioner.

In addition to chlorine and drugs in our drinking water, iron, fluoride, and harmful bacteria are also present in the majority of North American tap water.

Water consumption is so important to our health, that it vital that we have access to clean, and healthy drinking water. Healthy water, is water the way nature intended before we contaminated it, stripped it of its natural minerals, and reduced the pH to unhealthy acidic levels. Ordinary tap water must be first cleaned of harmful contaminates including chlorine, fluoride, pharmaceutical drugs, metals (mercury, lead, arsenic), chemicals, and bacteria. It must then be replenished with minerals to ensure that naturally occurring minerals are present. To ensure optimum health, the water should then be Alkaline PH balanced, and be certain that the water has a fresh spring water taste.

This can be achieved with Mineral Alkaline Drinking Water Filter Systems.

The first time I tried water cleaned by on of these water filter systems, I assumed that I was drinking natural spring water. I was surprised to find out how the Mineral Pro water filter systemswork, and how beneficial they are to our health. After a month of drinking the filtered mineral alkaline water, I noticed the health of my whole family increase. My skin was healthy and clear, and we all had so much more energy than before. I am relieved to know that even though I don’t live in an area with my own spring water run off, I can still get the same great quality water wherever I chose to live with the help of Mineralpro water filter systems."

Kaz H. Squamish BC

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